Show that if the iterates in Newton’s method converge to a point r for which f ′(r ) ≠ 0, then f (r ) = 0. Establish the same assertion for the secant method.
Hint: In the latter, the Mean-Value Theorem of Differential Calculus is useful. This is the case n = 0 in Taylor’s Theorem.
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